East of England, 27/10/2017. Meeting the Artist Lee Harris in his countryside listed cottage in the East of England.
<<Lee Harris (born 1936 in Johannesburg), is a South African writer and performer. He was one of the few white members of the African National Congress, where he helped with the Congress of the People and met Nelson Mandela. He acted with Orson Welles, Dame Flora Robson, wrote for the British underground press including International Times, helped found the Arts...
more »East of England, 27/10/2017. Meeting the Artist Lee Harris in his countryside listed cottage in the East of England.
<<Lee Harris (born 1936 in Johannesburg), is a South African writer and performer. He was one of the few white members of the African National Congress, where he helped with the Congress of the People and met Nelson Mandela. He acted with Orson Welles, Dame Flora Robson, wrote for the British underground press including International Times, helped found the Arts Lab and has been an instrumental figure in the British counterculture movement since the seventies when he published Brainstorm Comix and Home Grown magazine. […] In 1972 Harris opened a shop in the Portobello Road, London called Alchemy - named after The Alchemical Wedding. The shop [which closed the 31 December 2016, used] to sell items such as incense, postcards, pipes and smoking accessories, vaporisers as well as others. It remains a focus and gathering point for alternative Londoners to the present day and is London's oldest culture shop. In 1990 Harris was sentenced to three months imprisonment for selling items such as cigarette papers and pipes 'believed to be used for the smoking of cannabis'. The sentence was quashed on appeal, and headshops opened all over the country. […] Harris stood as the Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol candidate in the 2016 London Mayoral election. He was positioned in ninth place out of twelve candidates, obtaining 20,537 first round votes (0.8%), and 67,495 second preference votes […]>> (Source - Wikipedia.org).
For more information about Lee Harris please click here:
http://bit.ly/2oLKXev &
http://www.homegrownmagazine.co.uk/ &
http://leeharris.co.uk/ &
http://www.newantiquerecords.com/shineonleeharris/ &
https://soundcloud.com/newantiquerecords
For more events where I documented Lee Harris please click here:
http://bit.ly/2qGm7SD &
http://bit.ly/1XA7lo2 &
http://bit.ly/2oJmhCK &
http://bit.ly/2q7gU55 &
http://bit.ly/2oLINvf &
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<<Lee Harris (born 1936 in Johannesburg), is a South African writer and performer. He was one of the few white members of the African National Congress, where he helped with the Congress of the People and met Nelson Mandela. He acted with Orson Welles, Dame Flora Robson, wrote for the British underground press including International Times, helped found the Arts Lab and has been an instrumental figure in the British counterculture movement since the seventies when he published Brainstorm Comix and Home Grown magazine. […] In 1972 Harris opened a shop in the Portobello Road, London called Alchemy - named after The Alchemical Wedding. The shop [which closed the 31 December 2016, used] to sell items such as incense, postcards, pipes and smoking accessories, vaporisers as well as others. It remains a focus and gathering point for alternative Londoners to the present day and is London's oldest culture shop. In 1990 Harris was sentenced to three months imprisonment for selling items such as cigarette papers and pipes 'believed to be used for the smoking of cannabis'. The sentence was quashed on appeal, and headshops opened all over the country. […] Harris stood as the Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol candidate in the 2016 London Mayoral election. He was positioned in ninth place out of twelve candidates, obtaining 20,537 first round votes (0.8%), and 67,495 second preference votes […]>> (Source - Wikipedia.org).<br />
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For more information about Lee Harris please click here: http://bit.ly/2oLKXev & http://www.homegrownmagazine.co.uk/ & http://leeharris.co.uk/ & http://www.newantiquerecords.com/shineonleeharris/ & https://soundcloud.com/newantiquerecords<br />
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For more events where I documented Lee Harris please click here: http://bit.ly/2qGm7SD & http://bit.ly/1XA7lo2 & http://bit.ly/2oJmhCK & http://bit.ly/2q7gU55 & http://bit.ly/2oLINvf & http://bit.ly/2p3LI54](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000WUy2OskDPYQ/s/800/800/IMG-1122.jpg)
